DESCRIPTION The dbus-monitor command is used to monitor
messages going through a D- Bus message bus. See
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for more
information about the big picture.

There are two well-known message buses: the systemwide
message bus (installed on many systems as the
"messagebus" service) and the per-
user-login-session message bus (started each time a user
logs in). The --system and --session options direct
dbus-monitor to monitor the sys- tem or session buses
respectively. If neither is specified, dbus-moni- tor
monitors the session bus.

dbus-monitor has two different output modes, the classic
-style moni- toring mode and profiling mode. The profiling
format is a compact for- mat with a single line per message
and microsecond-resolution timing information. The --profile
and --monitor options select the profiling and monitoring
output format respectively. If neither is specified,
dbus-monitor uses the monitoring output format.

In order to get dbus-monitor to see the messages you are
interested in, you should specify a set of watch expressions
as you would expect to be passed to the dbus_bus_add_match
function.

The message bus configuration may keep dbus-monitor from
seeing all messages, especially if you run the monitor as a
non-root user.

OPTIONS --system Monitor the system message bus.

--session Monitor the session message bus. (This is the
default.)

--address ADDRESS Monitor an arbitrary message bus given
at ADDRESS.

--profile Use the profiling output format.

--monitor Use the monitoring output format. (This is the
default.)

EXAMPLE Here is an example of using dbus-monitor to
watch for the gnome typing monitor to say things